"Report!" orders Xavier.
Dr. Doom, Dr. Octopus, and Shredder bow to their knees and then look up at their leader. "Our new model is almost fully operational," replies Dr. Doom.
"Where is it now?"
"Simulated field testing," replies Shredder.
"The unit will be fully operation soon," adds Dr. Octopus, "and once we have secured a new facility, we can have a productive rate of over a hundred units per hour."
"Good."
There is a pause as they rise to their feet. Cell, Frieza, Juggernaut, and Magneto stand in areas around the room, Demitri is not present. Kintaro and Baraka continue to guard Prince Goro in a separate room.
"I heard about your first model," adds Xavier.
"By who!?" asks Dr. Doom.
"Take a guess," says Shredder to him.
"Yes. Bison has briefed me on your first prototype's performance," says Xavier. "Not to mention some other important information on his behalf."
"About what!? His Psycho Soldiers?" says Dr. Doom.
"Two are of those Soldiers have now become our enemies. The other one, Saturn, is dead."
"So why aren't you yell at him instead?" asks Shredder.
"It was in fact his prototype that interfered in the battle. Through it, we've learned its strength and weaknesses… and also theirs." He pauses for a short moment, "When the three Scouts came to them, the others were defending themselves and rarely attacked them."
"So how are we suppose to turn them against themselves?" asks Dr. Octopus.
Xavier lifts up a vile from his side, "With this. It's an airborne chemical virus that targets mutated genes and progresses it further. A type of mutagen as you would call it, Shredder."
"But there won't be enough for all the mutants," points out shredder.
"Think about it. If we gave it to most of them, like the X-Men and the Turtles, we would be giving them more strength and become a bigger threat for us only," replies Xavier. "But there is one who is not accustomed to his mutation and this is made especially for him."
"And who is be releasing the virus?" asks Frieza from elsewhere, hoping for some action.
Xavier chuckles, "I've found the perfect one for the job." Everyone hears footsteps and turn towards them. "Now, you know what to do?"
A human hand reaches for the vile that. "Yes, we know exactly what do."
Cable and Fujin lead the party along a path through the forest, Trunks watches the end. They travel in groups with gaps in-between.
Liu Kang slows down to group with the Sailor Scouts, in their casual clothing, and then evens his pace with them. "Are you guys feeling okay now?"
They all turn to him. "I still get dizzy at times," replies Mina.
"Same with me," adds Lita, "but it's getting better."
"And you?" he asks Serena.
"Oh, I'm fine," she replies with a laugh.
"Can you remember anything else yet?" asks Amy.
"No I can't. I must have blacked out after I was grabbed."
"Just like you, Serena," teases Raye.
"Hey!"
Meanwhile ahead of them, the Turtles walk a fair distance behind Piccolo and Goku. Leonardo sniffs the air and smells something, "What is that smell?"
"It's about time you smelt it," replies Michelangelo. A white bag hangs on his shoulder.
"You made another one!?" says Donatello.
"Correct-a-mondo!" he replies. "Wanna try a slice?"
"What's the dough made out of this time, Mikey?" asks Leonardo.
"Flour."
"Yeah, right," says Raphael, "from where?"
"Mugena gave me a small bag full," Michelangelo replies. Donatello looks around to see if he can find her but cannot.
"I doubt that," Leonardo replies.
"No, really. It's true. Come on, can't smell the delicious aroma in the air?"
"No I can't," replies Raphael. "It doesn't smell delicious, it smells burnt."
Michelangelo stops, "… What?"
The others stop as well. "I agree," says Donatello.
Michelangelo quick lifts the bag off his shoulder, looks inside, and pulls out something wrapped in a large white cloth with a few black spots. He quickly unwraps it, revealing the pizza with a wooden plate on top and underneath. He removes the top plate, the pizza is dark brown and burnt black. He's speechless with disappointment.
"Hate to say it, Mikey," says Donatello, "but you had to close to the fire."
"No, I didn't!"
"Yes, you did! You were in such a hurry to get it done that when you covered and put it you bag, it was still cooking. A flame could have continued to burn it while we were moving."
"Oh man," moans Michelangelo. He allows the plates to slide off and into the bag. In his hands is the burnt pizza but is pretty solid still.
"Well, I'm sure you will try again," says Leonardo. "Don't look so disappointed." The Turtles except Michelangelo continue on.
Michelangelo examines the pizza, even give a small attempt to nimble it but the crust is too burnt. He then fools around with by juggling from one hand to the other. "Hey, Donny!" he says as he throws it vertically towards him.
Donatello turns around just in time to see it and catch with both hands. "Humph, a new toy." He then throws it back but as a Frisbee.
The Scouts stop behind Michelangelo when he catches the toy. "Hey, Raph!" He throws vertically again, but a little too hard and it goes higher than he intended. "Whoops."
Raphael watches it go over him, "Heads up."
Goku quickly ducks and covers his head. But when it falls, it hits Piccolo smack in the back of the head and shatters, knocking his turban off. Piccolo gives a small moan from the hit, and then begins to growl louder and louder. He knows already who had done it and turns around quickly to the Turtles. He gives an angry stare at Michelangelo but he's nowhere to be seen. Only the hint of some of girls' turned heads show where he went.
"Calm down, Piccolo," says Goku, "It wasn't like he did it on purpose." Piccolo slowly bends down to pick up his turban which is surround by burnt pizza chips. He shakes the bits off and puts it back on his head. Goku laughs and begins to continue to follow the others, Piccolo stays behind him.
The Turtles, the Scouts, and Liu Kang look at one another, a few with a smile on their face. Leonardo turns to the trees, "Okay, Mikey. It's safe to come out!"
"Really?" says his voice.
The Turtles laugh about the incident and continue on. The Scouts and Liu Kang keep up with an even pace.
"Is Rini still further ahead?" asks Serena.
"Gohan, Pikachu, Kirby, and her are actually ahead of everyone. Don't worry, Gohan can keep an eye on her," replies Liu Kang.
Rini sits on her knees near a berry bush and weakly picks the berries. Images of her friend, Hotaru, flash through her mind. Meanwhile, Kirby and Pikachu play a game of their own while Gohan watches them from a high tree branch.
The two run close by Rini which draws Gohan's attention to her. He jumps down to her, "Upset about something?"
Rini slowly turns to him, and then looks down at the ground. She sighs and then says, "I was thinking about Hotaru."
"Oh," replies Gohan. "Well, I'll tell you what Raiden told me. When we win this tournament, and we will, our friends and us will go back to the way things were before we came here," he says with a smile.
Rini looks up at him again and actually manages to give a smile. "Thanks for your friendship."
He straightens his back and stands upright. He looks around the area, "I think I should go find the others, see that they are still coming this way. Will you be okay if you stay here?"
"Sure."
He turns to the two little ones, "And you two don't go to far, okay?"
Pikachu replies with a "Pika" and Kirby replies with a cheerful squeal.
"Okay then. Be back in a bit." Gohan hops into the air and flies forward into the forest. Rini goes back to picking the berries.
A humanoid-looking creature walks out of shade of the trees behind her…
Spiderman walks with the X-Men and the other Marvel Superheroes but closer to the back of the group. While the others talk to each other, Spiderman suddenly has a weird feeling and stops in his tracks, not noticed by the others.
My spider sense is going crazy, he thinks. But what is it?
Pikachu and Kirby unknowing move farther from Rini as they continue playing their game.
The black-skinned creature comes up from behind her and stops a few feet behind her. Then in a deep, human male voice says, "Hello there, Rini."
Rini jumps at the sound of the voice and quickly turns around. She sees a tall, muscular, white man with military-like blond hair and casual cloths. She slowly backs away. "Wh… who are you?"
"Don't worry, Rini. Eddie Brock is only here to help out," he replies as he kneels down to her.
"… Did Raiden send you?"
"What do you think?" he responds with a calm tone of voice but with an unfriendly smile. "You have to careful out here, you don't know who or what you're going to meet."
His words make her extremely nervous and uneasy. "How would you know my name?"
"I know a lot about you, Sailor Mini Moon." She cautiously backs up. "Don't you trust me?" he says and he holds out his hand, palm up for hers.
Rini thinks about it for a second. She then places her hand forward, stops to rethink, and pulls her away. She shakes her head in disagreement.
He lowers his hand, "You are a wise little girl. But there is someone will recognize the true Eddie Brock. The one you know as Spiderman… or we know him best as Peter Parker."
She turns around to run, "I gotta go!"
Eddie grabs her hand, "Oh no, sweetheart…"
Piccolo stops suddenly. Goku turns to him, "Sense something?"
"Someone's talking to the girl."
Gohan suddenly pops out of the trees beside Goku, "Hi, guys!"
Pikachu and Kirby both peer around a bush and quietly watch the two.
Rini turns around and Eddie manages to grab the other hand. "Perhaps, we have given you the wrong impression. You see, Eddie Brock is not the man you may think he is. Why don't we introduce you to our better half? We call ourselves...," a black, oil-like substance appears out of nowhere and covers Eddie from his feet to his shoulders, leaving his head till last. As it covers his head, white marks appear his chest and head covered parts. "VENOM!" he says in a completely different voice and a mouth with many sharp teeth and a large tongue.
Rini's scream is heard by the group. Everyone recognizes her and immediately run in the direction it came from. "THIS WAY!" yells Gohan.
Rini struggles to free herself from Venom's grip. Pikachu and Kirby run out from behind the bush and ready to jump Venom from behind. Venom releases one arm and turns it to the small animals. He fires a web-ball at them which hits Pikachu and wraps around him, holding him in place. Kirby stops to see what happened to Pikachu and is hit from behind by another web-ball, he webbed to the ground while lying on his front. Both struggle to free themselves.
Rini grips her captured arm's wrist and tries to yank it away. Venom turns back to her, "Where's our hero now?" he says and then dangles his tongue to scare her more.
"Right here, Venom!" Spiderman suddenly appears and hits Venom in the head with a two-foot, swing-in kick, Venom releases her and flies back several yards. Spiderman summersaults in mid-air and lands in front of Rini, "Are you okay?"
Rini responds with a heavy head nod, still frightened and out-of-breathe.
"Too bad we can't say the same for you, Parker!" says Venom when he gets to his feet and then does his trademark growl.
"Stay here," Spiderman tells Rini. He then shots a web-line and swings at Venom. Venom runs at him on all fours and jumps at him. Spiderman quickly attacks with another swing kick to his chest, knocking him back to the ground.
Spiderman lets go of the webbing and jumps down at him. Secretly, Venom's costume brings out the vile of vapour mutagen and it removes the blocking cap. Spiderman lands on top of Venom and they wrestle each other for control. The vile is knocked out Venom's costume and lands and sticks on Kirby's web cocoon.
What? Thinks Spiderman, My spider sense is off the charts! Venom's costume and his arms manage to push Spiderman off him. Venom gets to his feet.
"That's far enough, Venom!" yells Captain America with the others around him.
Serena and the other Sailor girls kneel down to Rini. "Are you okay?" asks Serena. Rini nods again and is less frighten than before.
Spiderman falls to his knees and grips his head in pain. Rini is the first to gasp.
"What's wrong, hero?" teases Venom, "not feeling well. Be careful, it might be contagious. We'll be seeing you again real soon, Spiderman." He growls again and then starts to swing again into the trees.
Spiderman suddenly collapses onto his front. "Wait here," commands Fujin and then he quickly walks over to Spiderman. Trunks runs over to the two webbed up animals and rips it off them.
"He's only unconscious," says Fujin. "There's a… strange form of bacteria or virus on the ground… it's dead. It's safe to come near him. Cable, come help me take him into an open area." Cable runs over to them and aids Fujin at lifting him up and carry him pass the others, back to the path.
Trunks finally rips the web off Kirby, and notices the vile. He cleans it off and, being open, lifts it to his face to smell it. He inhales several times but can't smell anything. He puts it in a pocket of his jacket and hurries after the others.
Amy, now in her Sailor Scout uniform and only one to morph, uses her visor to view the seemingly empty vile which now have a thin crust along the bottom. Her visor analyses it with numerous details. "It's definitely a virus, but I can't find out what it is. I would guess it's biochemical, but there's no record of anything close to it."
Donatello pushes his cheek against her face, making her jump at the feel of a new skin texture, and tries to see what she sees on the visor. Due to little success, he pushes it out a little bit, enough to see the entire visor. "Hmm…" he says as he tries to gather as much information as he can. He releases the visor with some embarrassment, "Sorry." He then looks down at the miniature computer than Sailor Mercury holds in her free hand, "Can you see what it is made up of, atomic-wise."
She types a string of characters into the computer. It beeps and a new screen appears with regional analysis. "Yep, it's biochemical all right. But I don't recognize it either."
Cable rubs his silver, right arm while sitting on the ground and moans at the occasional burst of a migraine headache. Fujin walks by and slowly stares at him, something is not right.
Trunks comes over and kneels down to him. "You look like you have a headache."
"I do, thank you," he snaps back. "My arm is acting up."
"How long has it been like that?"
"A few minutes now. I haven't had an attack for over fifteen years, why would it come back now?"
"Maybe it found a way to counteract the vaccine they gave you back then." He then gives a big cough. "Or maybe it's a cold like what I have. I think this is the first time ever had a cold."
"Too many medicines probably weakened your body's defence against germs," says Cable.
"Hey, you guys!" yells Donatello to them. "Can one of you come here?" Trunks gets back to his feet and walks over to Sailor Mercury and Donatello, give one loud cough along the way.
"We thought you might know something," says Sailor Mercury.
Trunks clears his throat and looks down at her computer. He can't concentrate and tries to squint at the data shown.
"You don't look so hot," says Donatello.
"I'll be fine. Maybe you can find something with our medical supplies," replies Trunks. He walks away from them and towards their med-kit which was lying on the ground away from everyone.
Meanwhile, a small group gathers near Spiderman's body. MegaMan walks up to beside Rini who is with the other four Scout girls, Sakura, and some other Marvel Superheroes. "Did Venom hurt you back there?"
Rini turns to him and gives a small pause. "No, he didn't hurt me. But he sure did scare me. He wouldn't let me go until that stuff went on top of him."
"Yeah, Venom is like that. You should have seen Roll when she first seen him do that."
"Do you know how she is right now?"
"No, I don't. Sorry."
"Rini," says Mina, "who's Roll."
"A friend," Rini slows down for a moment. "She was hurt before you guys came here. She saved my life."
"You mean the broken robot was your friend Roll?" asks Raye.
"Android," corrects MegaMan.
"… Yeah," replies Rini.
Spiderman moans. "Hey, guys," yells Sakura to the others, "he's waking up!"
He gives another moan but louder and more painful. "Spiderman?" says Rini.
Spiderman suddenly clenches his body and rolls over on the ground. He moans again, "No, not now!" Sakura reaches out to touch him, he suddenly rises to his feet, "You must stay away from me!" he warns. He begins to run to the trees but the pain becomes too much and he falls to his knees.
Cyclops runs up and kneels down to him, "What is it? What's wrong?"
"It's… my mutation disease," he moans out. "Keep away." His sides begin to budge out from under his costume and hands, they take the warning and back away. Then, with one loud muffled scream, his costume rips and coming out of his side are two new pairs of human arms, many people jump at the surprise. Spiderman pants for a moment and then turns his head to the others and says in a changing voice, "Stay away!"
Cable gets to his feet, still holding his arm in pain. "Trunks, help Sailor Mercury and Donatello find a cure for this, quickly." There is no reply. "Trunks!?" He and a few others turn to where Trunks was. Now, he is lying on the ground, unconscious, and his veins and arteries turning dark colours.
"What's going on!?" questions Fujin. He quickly runs over to Trunks and turns him over to look at his front and face. "There's nothing coming off him. What wrong with them?"
Cable moves his right hand to his face. Two fingers suddenly mutates into skeleton-like fingers and quickly turn back.
Spiderman gets up to his feet again and moans wildly. He bends forward and wraps his six arms around himself. His face and chest begin to expand and warp out of shape. He gives one final scream which turns into an inhuman roar. His costume rips all over and he begins to get bigger in height and muscle mass. His four new arms grow hairy and his fingers morph. His mask suddenly rips apart, revealing the hideous, six-eyed, hairy, large cranial, spider-like face. Almost all parts of the costume are torn open. His toes have merged to two per foot and his hands have moulded into three fingers per hand. He growls and then, with a full extension of his body and staring upward, with a loud, body-shaking roar.
The huge creature looks down at the others who all stare back at him. He gives a growl and shows what has become of his teeth.
"Stay back from him," warns Cable. "He has become a ManSpider. He doesn't know us anymore!" He quickly runs over to the med-kit, Trunks, and Fujin. He waves over Mercury and Donatello, he can barely stand because of his torture.
Cable looks up at them as he kneels on the ground again. "Take the entire kit, everything. Find a cure for Spiderman."
"What's wrong with Trunks?"
"I don't know," he replies in a moan. "It must be something in us from the future that came back after being exposed, because only Spiderman is infected by this virus. We've agreed to this, your lives come first, not ours." He moans again, most of his hand mutates this time and has a harder time changing back.
"The T-O virus," concludes Fujin.
"I don't have enough energy to withstand this. My powers were muted from the cure. I'm getting… very tired."
"Hey guys," yells Raphael, "So are we suppose to stand here and watch him drool?"
"We can't harm him," says IronMan.
"But if we have to…" says Wolverine and he extends both sets of claws.
Serena and the other Scouts slowly back away. ManSpider watches them closely. Serena gives a quiet squeal of fear. Suddenly, ManSpider jumps high into the air, over the group, and on the other side of the girls. Before Serena can scream, ManSpider shoots out six strings off webbing from his hands and encase her quickly in a cocoon.
Raye and Sakura, because they were closest to Serena and jumped away from the webbing, were the next ones to be cocooned. Rini scrambles away and makes it to safety near the others.
Cyclops blasts ManSpider, harming him barely. "Spiderman, please calm yourself. We can help you."
ManSpider responds with a roar. Lita, Mina, and Chun Li quickly pull the three to safety and then tear away a part for them to breathe. All three cough from the semi-weak odour that the web gave off.
ManSpider takes a big step forward to test the group, they don't move from their spot. He then sniffs the air for something.
There is a flash just about a dozen yards beside ManSpider. "Sorry, I'm late," says Mugena as the flash fades away. "I was working on—Ahhh!" ManSpider launches himself into the air and comes down on her. After a couple seconds, and he's back on his feet and there is no Mugena in sight.
"Whoa!" They turn around to see a wide-eyed, pink-haired Psylocke, "That was almost the scariest thing I've ever seen." ManSpider gives an angry growl. "Sorry, but I'm not your meal!" she yells back.
"We can't find anything that is compatible with the virus," says Donatello.
Fujin looks inside the med-kit that remains on the ground while Donatello reaches for a new drug one after another. Fujin grabs a container which seems different in his eyes, on it is the letters HW. While Cable mutters to himself in an attempt to stay awake, Fujin asks him, "What's in this container?"
"HW. Holy water. Blessed by Holy-men. In case of vampires. In early stages it can reverse a crossing over. Also called 'Tears of Gods'…" And Cable mutters on, giving a moan now and then.
"Holy water?"
"Could that help?" asks Mercury as she continues to type code into the computer.
"I can't see how at the moment," replies Fujin. "I've never hear of any such method."
"… Alliance. Established 2017… Plague. Masaki virus outbreak. Millions dead. Only killing pure humans, others were sickened…" mutters Cable.
"What plague?" asks Donatello.
"Masaki virus. Outbreak…"
"No help there." He kneels down to him and clearly says to him, "Was there a cure?"
"Cure discovered early February 2018. Reversed some cases. Neutralizes new cases…"
"Do you have it in a container of it?"
"The one marked 'Masaki'. Cause unknown…" He gives on loud moan and his entire arm mutates into a long demon-skeleton-like arm.
Donatello searches the kit and takes out a glass cylinder, "Thank you."
ManSpider leans forward and stands on all eight limbs. He charges at the group and plows into them. He grabs WarMachine in the middle of the group and lifts him up in the arm. He suddenly brings his head down and bites WarMachine's shoulder. Luckily, ManSpider cannot penetrate his armour. The giant mutant grows frustrated and throws WarMachine to the ground.
"Let's do it, Mina," says Lita and she takes out her power stick. So does Mina. But ManSpider knows that it is a threat to him and webs both of them around the chest, pinning their arms in place. Jupiter accidentally drops her stick.
Pikachu and Pikachu-Kirby jump on ManSpider and give him a big jolt of electricity. ManSpider moans slightly but he manages to swing his arms at them to knock them off.
ManSpider suddenly shoots out a web-line at MegaMan. With him stuck to the end, ManSpider swings him around and bangs him repeatedly against the ground and uses him like a mace to hit others away. He then releases MegaMan near his feet. Then he grabs Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Morrigan, Rogue, and Storm with all six hands, jumps high into the air, and smashes them against the ground under his weight.
MegaMan looks to the side, he's still fully functional with a few dents and scrapes. About two feet away is Jupiter's power stick, glowing with strange energy. He instinctively reaches for it and grabs it. A strange energy flows through his body.
Lita stares on in amazement. "What the—?"
MegaMan's armour changes to a light blue colour and drops the power stick. "I present to you…" He cocks his buster like a gun. "With the power of electricity, the Lightning Buster!"
ManSpider is attracted to the light show. He charges at MegaMan, "Better calm you down." He fires a blast of lightning at ManSpider. ManSpider moans in pain and backs up a bit. He goes back to charge again but MegaMan fires another blast, ManSpider falls to his hands and knees.
"I hope I didn't hurt him too badly," says MegaMan as a taunt but with a small hint of concern. ManSpider slowly raises his head and pauses before charging again. MegaMan fires another blast but it seems to not affect him. ManSpider rises up only inches from him, grabs MegaMan with his middle and bottom pair of hands. He stands upright and stretches MegaMan's limbs. Then, with his top pair of fists, repeatedly hits MegaMan on the head and shoulders. After a few dozen hits, ManSpider slams him on the ground.
"We found a connection," says Donatello.
"Yeah, but the cure for the Masaki virus is only making it worse," adds Sailor Mercury. "This virus dies when exposed to air for too long. This virus acts as a catalyst to reawaken the Masaki virus within them, almost destroying the anti-virus completely."
Gohan rushes in at ManSpider. "No, Gohan!" yells Goku. But Gohan is overpowered by ManSpider and is lifted up to his mouth. Piccolo comes in to rescue him before ManSpider can inject Gohan with venom.
"We don't want to hurt him," says Saiyaman, "but he has all intention to hurt us. How can we calm him down without killing ourselves?"
Fujin can't take it anymore. He morphs into a wind and appears in front of ManSpider. "Hear me, Spiderman!" yells Fujin. "We all care for you, you must hear me!" ManSpider grabs him by all four limbs with his top and bottom pair of hands. He then raises a foot to Fujin's gut and pushes hard. To cause more pain, ManSpider uses his free arms to hit him in the sides.
Rini walks up and stands just to the left of ManSpider's front. "Come on, Spiderman, I know that you're in there."
ManSpider focus his attention to her, he releases Fujin by throwing him to the side. He advances towards her.
"Rini, get away from him," hollers Serena.
"No! I know he's still in there!"
ManSpider brings his head about a foot away from her face and drools slightly. Rini stares at the front set of eyes. He twitches to see what she will do. He then raises one fist into the air. She knows what she must do…
She struggle for a decision, and finally makes one. "Parker, please listen to me!"
ManSpider gives a confusing grunt in surprise. He lowers his arms to the ground.
"Do you remember me, Peter?" asks Rini. "Do you remember Wolverine… Sakura… Ryu… anyone of us?"
ManSpider backs up slightly. "We finally calm him down," says Chun Li.
"Parker? Peter Parker?" says Storm. "The reporter?"
"How did you find out his name?" asks Fujin with a moan.
"It was us, fools!" Eddie Brock appears on a tree branch which somehow supports him. "Poor old Parker, looks like that virus caught up with you, hasn't it? Again, another thing that the symbiote could have protected you from. Instead it has given a new purpose to Eddie Brock."
ManSpider turns towards him and takes a step every few seconds.
"What do you say, Peter? We can join forces, two reporters will be making news themselves by killing this rotten pile of gutter trash. The Amazing ManSpider and the Dangerous Venom." He changes into his Venom form and continues to stare down at him.
ManSpider stops about ten yards away from Venom and growls at him. He springs his arms forward and shoots out his webbing.
Venom easily avoids the streams and lands on the ground. "You have made it clear to us," he chuckles. "It will be an honour to destroy all traces of the Peter Parker. Like your Aunt May, Felicia Hardy… Mary Jane Watson."
ManSpider grows furious and charges at him. Venom launches at him and both collide. They hold onto each other and roll on the ground for control.
"Well, that'll keep him occupied for a while," says Gambit.
"Not quite," taunts Venom while still fighting. "We're still much stronger than even this mutant." Venom pins him on the ground, but ManSpider counters by using his four armed advantage and strikes Venom repeatedly to little affect.
"Okay, now we can destroy the virus and then we can give Cable and Trunks shots of the vaccine they had before," says Donatello as he gathers some items from the med-kit.
"But what about Spiderman?" asks Fujin.
"Maybe we can use the Holy Water to change Spiderman like how Cable was talking about vampires."
"… Trunks can sleep through this, because of his alien blood. I should be trying to stay awake," mutters Cable, his arm is getting worse and barely retreats back to a normal state. He hears what they were saying, "Your idea may only work on one condition. Like the vampires, Holy Water must be drunk and drunk willingly. If he doesn't want it, it can kill him." And for the first time in a while, Cable stops muttering and looks up at everyone.
"I sure that he's still part of ManSpider's mind," says Sakura.
"He does want to change back!" adds Rini.
"We will have to feed it to him," says Sailor Mercury.
Cable wheezes, "But you can't force it down his throat." He slowly falls onto his back and shows heavy signs of fatigue.
Donatello searches the med-kit. "This is only one syringe. We better do Cable first then."
Mercury swirls a vile of the new chemical. "Meanwhile, we should also be thinking of a way to give Spiderman the formula."
Starting with Piccolo, a few people slowly turn to the only one with food supplies with him. "What?" asks Michelangelo.
Donatello fills up the needle with the chemical and quickly sticks it into Cable's infected arm. "This will only kill this virus. Pass me the Masaki anti-virus." His brother Leonardo passes it to him, and he fills the needle again. He injects it into Cable, seconds later Cable passes out into a sleep.
ManSpider and Venom continue to battle but now on their feet. ManSpider relies on his speed and strength, while Venom uses the symbiote for most of his attacks.
"Be careful," says Michelangelo. "That is valuable pizza ingredients to me."
Morrigan lifts up the dough ball and gives a disgusted expression. "I hope he likes it."
"Wow," says Donatello as he lifts up a bottle of cleaning alcohol. He looks down at the unconscious Cable, "You guys thought of almost everything." Donatello fills the syringe with alcohol and empties it onto the ground. He then repeats the two injections to Trunks.
Sailor Mercury takes the remaining amount of chemical and asks for the dough ball.
"Now, how do we get rid of the Black Widow Maker?" asks Lita.
No one responds for a moment. Mugena sighs, "I guess I'm the only one that knows." Everyone turns to her, wanting to know as well. "In the Animated Series, the symbiote that both came into contact with Spiderman and Eddie Brock was weakened by loud, high pitched noises."
"Animated Series?" asks B.B.Hood.
"In my reality, you're all movies, cartoons, comics, and video games, remember?" She walks to the outside the group, facing the two fighters. "I think I just know the right person. But I have never been her before. Hope this works…" She strands upright for a few seconds with no sign of anything different. Then she just quickly and simply morphs within a split-second to a pink--lighter-pink--white haired woman with leather out fit.
"Sindel," says Liu Kang.
"I'll try to get rid of him," says Sindel-Mugena. She floats over to the two.
Venom overpowers ManSpider and throws him to the side. "What the Hell do you want?"
"Just this." She opens her mouth very wide and starts to scream. Venom instantly covers his ears, as does Piccolo and a few others. The symbiote squirms all over Eddie's body. Then, in self-defence, Venom shoots a web-ball at her. Sindel-Mugena becomes covered with webbing, covering her entire head and stopping her scream.
"That'll shut you up!" Suddenly, ManSpider pounces on Venom and tries to dig his venomous fangs into him, but the symbiote pushes the fangs away. Venom battles him with his arms while ManSpider stayed on his back. "Don't think that you'll get the upper hand."
The webbing begins to tear as Sindel-Mugena's muffled scream grows louder. With one loud snap, her mouth is freed from the web and she screams at Venom.
"No, what's happening!?" yells Venom. The symbiote loses its momentum in the battle, and ManSpider manages to touch Eddie's true skin. Venom, without the aid of the symbiote which is weakening, grabs ManSpider's head and flings him over onto the ground. The screaming continues and Eddie backs away.
Mugena morphs back into her normal form and stops screaming but is out-of-breathe.
The symbiote begins to cover Brock again but leaves his head and a patch of his shoulder where ManSpider was able to scrape his fangs. "This isn't over, Parker. No matter what form you are," the symbiote covers the rest of the body, "Venom will always know your weaknesses and exploit them." He gives a growl, ManSpider replies with one as well. Then Venom swings off into the trees.
ManSpider slowly turns to the group. Morrigan slowly walks forward, palms together and open with the dough ball. She stops a few feet away from him and stretches out the dough ball to him. Morrigan (Lilith's consciousness) is scared and there is no reaction of either ManSpider or the others. Rini runs up to beside her, "It's okay, Peter. This will make you better."
ManSpider reaches out for it and picks it up with two fingernails, Morrigan squeals quietly in fear. Rini nods in approval. He sniffs the ball and recoils in disgust as well.
"I knew it didn't smell good," whispers Morrigan with an unmoving mouth.
"Go on, eat it," encourages Rini. "It'll make you better."
ManSpider studies it some more for a moment and then pops it into his mouth. He chews it slowly with some disgust. He swallows after a dozen chews. A few seconds pass and everyone waits for something, anything. ManSpider suddenly gives one loud belch, a few, like the Turtles, laugh at the incident. He seems to be growing tired and goes to his knees.
People gather near him as he goes unconscious and falls onto his front.
Trunks slowly opens his eyes up to the sky above. He still has the discoloured views and arteries but they are beginning to subside. "Where am I?"
"Trunks is waking up," says Sailor Mercury. A few others come to them while the others stay near ManSpider. The other teenage Scout girls, still in civilian cloths, the Turtles, and a few Marvel SuperHeroes stay with Trunks and Cable while the others help keep ManSpider calm if he wakes up. Fujin kneels a few feet away from Trunks while Donatello and Mercury observe for unexpected side-effects.
Trunks looks at everyone around him. "Why are you here?"
"What's wrong with him," asks Leonardo.
Donatello replies, "He's probably still suffering from the fatigue, temporary amnesia."
"This is a dream," says Trunks, "the ghosts speak."
"So, he wasn't kidding before," says Raye.
"What was I not kidding about?" Trunks looks around and sees someone he recognizes, "Fujin!?"
"Yeah?" he replies.
"I thought I would never see you again."
"… Why?"
"You died. I was there."
Raphael bends down to him to get more information. "How?"
"Onslaught came back… You protected me."
"What happened to the rest of us?"
"Raph!" yells Leonardo.
"What!?"
Trunks replies, "Everyone knows… you lost. You're dead."
There is silence for a moment. "I think that enough for now," says Fujin. "They'll tell us the rest when we're ready."
"But we have every right to know!" says Mina.
"We should be focusing on what has happened. Then they will decide if we are fit to know."
"We just need to ask one more question to see if he's alright," says Sailor Mercury. "What is the last thing you remember?" Fujin goes to the med-kit and searches through it.
"… A bluish light. People. Friends. Machines. Walking machines." Fujin places the hyper-spray on Trunks's neck and he almost instantly goes back to sleep. By watching them use it before, Fujin knew how to use the device
"I'm sorry. But we cannot sacrifice was they had promise to keep secret from us."
Meanwhile, Peter Parker is almost back to normal. His four extra arms retract into his body. But what was surprising to everyone is the fact that they are seeing his face for the first time, his identity exposed.
Everyone clams down and begin to stand up. Peter moans and looks around and remembers where he is. "Something happened to me?" He also notices the missing pieces of his costume and then realized that he wasn't wear his mask. He tries to hide his face.
"It's okay, Peter. It's kind of late for that now," says IronMan. He helps Peter up off the ground.
"I don't what to say," says Peter.
"Well, I'll start it off." IronMan stretches out his hand to be shaken. "Since I know you, you should know me. I'm Tony Stark."
"Okay, Krang," says Xavier on the view-screen in the Technodrome. "I'm glad we've met. You're news sounds promising."
"Fine, fine," replies Krang. "How many should I send you the first time?"
"Hmm… Send two dozen so we can test them out. I'm sure they're more promising than Reptilians or Baraki. You maybe one of my best servants that have allied with me." The screen shuts off.
"Servant!" says Krang to himself and continues on his mumbling. The view-screen begins to show data as he types computer code. A message comes up at one point saying 'ERROR'. "Override!"
The screen goes into a bluish tunnel-like display which bends and twists wildly. Static suddenly fills the screen. A second later, the screen shows the inside of a mechanical factory-like complex. Green light flickers around the structures and a mechanical voice comes on.
"We are the Borg. Servants of Onslaught. State name and designation."
"It's me, you idiots. I want to talk to the one I was talking to before."
The screen quickly switches to a man in shadow who sits in a chair. In a normal, deep voice, he says, "Oh, Krang."
"Don't 'Oh, Krang' me! I've talked to the one you said was called Onslaught."
"… And how many units does he request?"
"It's best if you send fifty."
"Good." He types some code into a computer on his end. "Open your portal, Krang. We will be sending them through it."
Krang opens a portal a few feet to the side of the main view-screen. Then, one-by-one, tall, silver-skeleton androids come out and line up about a foot apart in uniform formation of ten by five.
"Not only are they extremely strong and nearly indestructible, they are the sum knowledge of robotic creations from thousands of realities and twenty years of evolution by the Borg."
The last one completes the formation and Krang examines the killing machines. "Excellent."
"Nice doing business with you, Krang." The screen goes back to static.
